I went to the Microsoft Tech Days conference 2010 earlier this week. The main focus of the conference was Sharepoint 2010 but there were some other interesting topics covered as well. The one topic that I found very interesting was about StreamInsight. StreamInsight is a new complex event processing (CEP) component that ships with SQL Server 2008 R2.
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Today the Cape Town SWAT team was very excited to get delivery of two shiny new iPads. Tyrone volunteered to unbox the much-hyped gadget while I took a few snaps to chronicle the occasion. Tyrone’s debt for getting the first whiff of that delicious “new apple product” smell is that he has to do a full review post next week. In the meantime though, here are some photos of the unboxing to whet your appetite…
It can be argued that Facebook is now the de facto online social network with almost 500 million registered users, with only a few countries such as China (QQ), Russia (Vkontakte), Japan (Mixi) and Brazil (Orkut) left where it is not the dominant social force. Facebook has been especially successful in expanding geographically via local language implementations and is now taking this further by also extending users’ social graphs and activities to the wider web through its Open Graph tools (announced at their F8 conference last week).
